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NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY - May 2010: Climate Change is addressed throughout the document, with a strong concentration on page 47. Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf Page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/homeland-security/

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming 25 June 2008 National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS ...the idea that there is such a thing as climate change is as close to established scientific fact as one can get. At its last meeting in February 2007, the IPCC concluded that human activity has indeed increased global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. It further concluded that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” and “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”

The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change Date of Publication: November 5, 2007 Document: 071105_ageofconsequences.pdf Source: http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4154/type,1/

The core message of WBGU’s risk analysis is that without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies’ adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and international security to a new degree. However, climate change could also unite the international community, provided that it recognizes climate change as a threat to humankind and soon sets the course for the avoidance of dangerous anthropogenic climate change by adopting a dynamic and globally coordi- nated climate policy.

The purpose of this study is to examine the national security consequences of climate change. A dozen of the nation’s most respected retired admirals and generals have served as a Military Advisory Board to study how climate change could affect our nation’s security over the next 30 to 40 years—the time frame for developing new military capabilities. Source: http://securityandclimate.cna.org/report/

The core message of WBGU’s risk analysis is that without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies’ adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and international security to a new degree.